second, it always gets me so mad when people claim other musicians don't play with soul or emotion. it is impossible as human beings to play without any soul or emotion. all music, from rock to blues to punk to shred to anything else has emotion because a human is playing it. it is complete bullsh!t when somebody says that another plays without feeling. also just because someone went to study music in a school versus someone from hendrix's background doesn't change anything. you're friends do not understand that it doesn't matter what type of music education one has.
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By